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Speaker 1: Today's biggest news from The Australian. I'm Christinamiott with the

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Speaker 1: Front's afternoon headlines. Susan Lee says she has no plans

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Speaker 1: to resign as Liberal Party leader and she's confident she'll

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Speaker 1: be in the top job when Parliament returns next month.

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Speaker 1: Please leadership was thrown into doubt when the Nationals dramatically

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Speaker 1: walked away from the coalition over a disagreement about the

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Speaker 1: government's new hate speech laws, but she left the door

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Speaker 1: open for a second reunification of the coalition, and she

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Speaker 1: said she's proud of her party's efforts to pass the

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Speaker 1: hate speech legislation drafted in the wake of the December

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Speaker 1: fourteen terror attack at Bondi Beach.

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Speaker 2: I am absolutely confident in the leadership that I have delivered,

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Speaker 2: the leadership I will deliver, and the strength of effort

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Speaker 2: that my party and I are making every single day.

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Speaker 2: The coalition is stronger together and the leaders of our

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Speaker 2: two great parties have a responsibility to work together constructively

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Speaker 2: and calmly to make sure that we deliver what Australians

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Speaker 2: expect of us, a strong, principled opposition.

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Speaker 1: Questions are also swirling about David Littlebrowd's leadership of the Nationals,

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Speaker 1: but he says his focus is on his party's policies.

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Speaker 3: It's a good opportunity for them to work themselves through

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Speaker 3: to work out who they are. But we'll focus on

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Speaker 3: the people we represent and we'll go to Cander with

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Speaker 3: them and make sure their voices are heard.

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Speaker 1: Naomi Osaka apologized for what she called a disrespectful post

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Speaker 1: match interview following her victory over Romanian tennis veteran Sarana Cistia.

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Speaker 1: In the interview, Osaka referred to a heated exchange at

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Speaker 1: the nets where Cistia accused her of not knowing what

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Speaker 1: fair play is. She said she believed Cirstia may have

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Speaker 1: been frustrated by her attempts to hype herself up between serves.

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Speaker 4: I tried to play well. I think I hit a

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Speaker 4: lot on four stairs, but I tried my best. She's

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Speaker 4: a great player. I think this was her last Australian Open,

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Speaker 4: so okay. Sorry.

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Speaker 1: She was mad about it, but Osaka later walked back

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Speaker 1: her comments in a press conference.

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Speaker 4: I'm a little confused, but like I get that emotions

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Speaker 4: were very high for her, and I also want to apologize.

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Speaker 4: I think like when I'm plumping myself up in my head,

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Speaker 4: I'm not like okay, and now I'm going to distract

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Speaker 4: the other person like it's purely for me.

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Speaker 1: Australians Rose Byrne, Jacob Alordi and Nick Cave have scored

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Speaker 1: OSCAR nominations ahead of this year's Academy Awards. Burne is

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Speaker 1: nominated in the Best Actress category for her performance in

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Speaker 1: psychological comedy Drama If I had Legs, I'd kick you,

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Speaker 1: where she plays a mother on the edge.

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Speaker 3: I'm supposed to know how to fix this.

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Speaker 1: I'm supposed to know how to effects her.

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Speaker 4: What is it you think it's your job defects.

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Speaker 2: I'm asking you what I suppose to know? Can you

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Speaker 2: hear me? A?

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Speaker 1: Lordie is up for a Best Supporting Actor gong for

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Speaker 1: his role in Frankenstein, while the singer Nick Cave is

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Speaker 1: nominated for Best Original Song for Train Dreams from the

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Speaker 1: film of the same name. Vampire Epic Sinners became the

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Speaker 1: most nominated film in oscar's history, with sixteen nominations, including

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Speaker 1: Best Picture, Best Director and Best Actor. Check out those

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